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7 State Parks for Fall Colors and Birding

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North Bend State Park, West Virginia. Strong populations of birds reside in the hardwood forests and dense understories in this north-eastern location of West Virginia. Pileated Woodpecker. Sky Meadows State Park, Virginia. Photo by © Mike Kendrick. Photo by © Mike Kendrick. American Kestrel.

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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In some cases, Hashimoto presents both water color and block print images, such as the block print of a male Wood Duck shown at the beginning of this review, colorfully dramatic, and the watercolor below, more subtle and atmospheric in its use of line and hue. The index lists bird species by whole name, which is less than satisfactory.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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” The Labrador Duck “is memorialized by forty-four stuffed specimens in museums and by countless antique featherbeds.” ” Many of these images were new to me; with the exception of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, I don’t think they have been heavily mined for notecards or fabric.